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À Akhmatova │ А​х​м​а​т​о​в​о​й

from Meghalaya by Caroline Mercier

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  • Meghalaya
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Meghalaya signifie "demeure des nuages" en Sanskrit. C'est aussi un État du Nord-Est de l'Inde.

    "L'inconnu constamment lapide ma cervelle de mémoires sans âges, aux origines dispersées, et me confie grâce au souffle de sentinelles que l'âme d'un poète a longtemps voyagé ; des contrées désertiques et sablonneuses, à celles que souvent visitent l'automne et la rosée."

    Includes unlimited streaming of Meghalaya via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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"Vos aîles sont effilochées / Ô fouleuse de pavés !", poème d'amour écrit par Marina Tsvetaeva pour Anna Akhmatova, mis en musique par Elena Frolova

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À Akhmatova │ Ахматовой
(Russie - 1921
Musique : Elena Frolova│ Елена Фролова
Texte : Marina Tsvetaeva │ Марина Цветаева
Arrangements : Caroline Mercier, Arnaud Delpoux)

Кем полосынька твоя
Нынче выжнется ?
Чернокосынька моя !
Чернокнижница !

Дни полночные твои,
Век твой таборный...
Все работнички твои
Разом забраны.

Где сподручники твои,
Те сподвижнички ?
Белорученька моя,
Чернокнижница !

Не загладить тех могил
Слезой, славою.
Один заживо ходил —
Как удавленный.

Другой к стеночке пошел
Искать прибыли.
(И гордец же был-сокол !)
Разом выбыли.

Высоко твои братья !
Не докличешься !
Яснооконька моя,
Чернокнижница !

А из тучи-то (хвала —
Диво дивное !)
Соколиная стрела,
Голубиная...

Знать, в два перышка тебе
Пишут тамотка,
Знать, уж в скорости тебе
Выйдет грамотка :

— Будет крылышки трепать
О булыжники !
Чернокрылонька моя !
Чернокнижница !

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Whose lashes today
Do you weather ?
My black-scarfed-lady !
Black-arts-master !

Your days are midnight,
Your century, a gypsy band…
Era of workers, all of it,
You take in your hand.

When it‘s an easy task,
Are you a comrade-worker ?
My shirker of dirty work,
Black arts master !

Neither tears, nor fame
Can a grave, requite,
Life stays the same —
An astonishment.

Others stayed to look
Around the low wall,
(Arrogance, a hawk !)
And let time stall.

Your brothers are lofty !
Distance unmeasured !
My clear-eyed-lady,
Black arts master !

From pain (asked for —
Wonder of wonders !)
Hawklike, its arrow,
Dovecot, its terror…

You know — how with two
Featherlets to write it,
Know — and your velocity
Exceeds us who read it :

Your wings are shoddy
O cobblestone walker !
My black-scarfed-lady !
Black-arts-master !"

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from Meghalaya, released September 20, 2014
© 2014 Caroline Mercier

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Caroline Mercier Paris, France

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Caroline Mercier is a French punk trobairitz from the Italian-Spanish diaspora offering music with contemporary tones and a hint of her Andalusian roots. Her love for orality makes her sing in more than ten languages including Spanish, Ladino, Italian and Arabic, all of which are related to her pied-noir family.

[alternative, world, chamber, punk, dark, healing]
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